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Discussing the slavery’s lasting repercussions for formerly enslaved people, Beloved provides a perspective missing from many books about this period (including News of the World). Readers looking for a nonfiction introduction to Reconstruction should consult A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner, leading expert in this period.
News of the World: A Novel. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, 3 Nov. 2016. National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain ...
- Paulette Jiles
News of the World. Paulette Jiles. Morrow, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-240920-1. Jiles delivers a taut, evocative story of post–Civil War Texas in this riveting drama of a redeemed captive of ...
Dec 29, 2020 · Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, Simon the Fiddler, and News of the World, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas. Hometown: Southwest Texas.
Dec 9, 2016 · In the National Book Award finalist News of the World, elderly, genteel Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former soldier and onetime printer, makes his living traveling through post−Civil War Texas with a sheaf of newspapers, reading for dimes to audiences hungry for outside news. Hardcover $20.49 $22.99. ADD TO CART.
Jun 20, 2017 · ISBN-13: 9780062409218. In NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles, author of ENEMY WOMEN, a travelling newsreader goes on a treacherous journey through 1870’s Texas to return a child captured by the Kiowa to her distant family. Longlisted for the National Book Award–Fiction.
Poet and novelist Paulette Jiles’ latest book is once again set in the post-Civil War era, a time that she memorably evoked in previous works like The Color of Lightning. News of the World is a beautifully written story based on a real-life former soldier, Capt. Jefferson Kidd, who traveled the north Texas landscape in the 1870s reading the ...
